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Missing link between Alzheimer’s and vascular disease found?
A gene called FMNL2 may explain why people with hypertension, diabetes, heart disease, or obesity have a greater risk of developing Alzheimer's disease.
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The most popular blog posts about society, policy & culture on Hacker News. 1,047 posts.
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How Does This End?
Russia’s war in Ukraine has an infinite number of scenarios, but scores of war games point to two likely paths.
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Hispaniola's great divergence
Why are Haiti and the DR so different?
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Who owns Parliament?
This week, MPs have returned to Parliament from their summer recess. As they walk through its corridors, drink in its subsidised bars, and plot in its tea-rooms, I wonder how many MPs stop to ask: …
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Interview: Vitalik Buterin
In which we talk about the big shifts in crypto.
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Long-Term Building in Japan
It is striking that this part of Japan houses two sets of structures, both of nearly equal age, and both made of largely ephemeral materials that have lasted over 14 centuries through totally different mechanisms and religions.
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Galileo Project now fully funded for expedition to study an interstellar meteor
Wonderful news! We just received full funding for the Galileo Project expedition to scoop the fragments of the first interstellar meteor…
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Right to Repair Fight
Manufacturers of vehicles, electronics, appliances, and more are making it tough for independent shops and DIYers to make repairs. Shouldn’t you be able to get stuff you own fixed where and how you want?
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Prices and wages in Medieval England (2014)
Data-driven approach to history
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ChatGPT vs. a Cryptic Crossword
The first Times crossword Having seen several mind-blowing articles about ChatGPT’s ability (most notably this one), I wondered how ChatGPT would fare solving a cryptic crossword. I decided to try with an easy one: a Quick Cryptic from The Times. I had a search through the Times for the Times archives to try and find…
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Documenting equipment losses during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
By Jakub Janovsky , Naalsio , Aloha , Dan , Kemal , and Alexander Black This list only in...
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Minnesota Wants to Ban Under-18s from User-Generated Content Services
As part of an omnibus bill, the Minnesota House of Representatives passed a troubling bill restricting how under-18 users engage with user-generated content (UGC) services. [At the bottom of this post, I’ve included the text as passed by the Minnesota...
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US Export Restrictions, Intel Layoffs, Applied Materials, and TSMC
Headline Blitz: Semiconductor Edition
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How BART on the Golden Gate Bridge died: A new history
"A Machiavellian plot" to kill a Bay Area dream
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IETF Draft: Centralization, Decentralization, and Internet Standards
Despite being designed and operated as a decentralized network-of-networks, the Internet is continuously subjected to forces that encourage centralization. This document offers a definition of centralization, explains why it is undesirable, identifies different types of it, catalogues limitations of common approaches…
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Nokia and Airbus elected as judges at the UPC, an unheard corruption of Justice
Brussels, 16th November 2022 — Nokia and Airbus got their patent lawyers elected as part-time technical judges at the forthcoming Unified Patent Court (UPC). Europe is witnessing corporate capture of its Justice system. Being ‘judges’ in the morning and ‘ patent lawyers’ in the afternoon. The Unified Patent Court is…
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Gnome Turns 25
Around the end of 2020, I looked at GNOME's commit history as a proxy for the project's overall health. A year and a half went by since then, and it's time for an update.
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Stop Writing Twitter Threads
If you've clicked on the links, you've probably noticed a pattern: they are all Twitter threads. And Twitter threads are an absolute abomination.
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America needs supply-side reform
It's can't just be an excuse — we need to improve our policies
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Why none of my books are available on Audible
And why Amazon owes me $3,218.55.
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Books Become Games
Simulation, Gamification, and the Rise of Algorithmic Capitalism
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The tech industry controls CS conference funding. What are the dangers?
Research about the influence of computing technologies, such as artificial intelligence (AI), on society relies heavily upon the financial support of the very companies that produce those technologies. Corporations like Google, Microsoft, and IBM spend millions of dollars each year to sponsor labs, professorships, PhD…
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It was all downhill after the Cuecat
Sometime in 2001, I walked into a Radio Shack on San Francisco's Market Street and asked for a Cuecat: a handheld barcode scanner that looked a bit like a cat and a bit like a sex toy. The clerk handed one over to me and I left, feeling a little giddy. I didn't have to pay a cent.
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10 Years of Nukemap
NUKEMAP was released into the world a decade ago, believe it or not.
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Meta’s Adversarial Threat Report, Third Quarter 2022
We’re sharing details about three deceptive networks we took down during the last quarter.